Jeremy's Blog

My new laptop, a pretty cheap Compaq Presario, arrived yesterday. Comes outfitted with a AMD Turion 64-Bit processor, clocking in at 1.60 GHz with 512 MB of RAM. It’s a really slick machine, I think. Considering as soon as it come out of the box, I was in the process of installing Linux on it … It’s going to be a great machine, for my purposes, and I’m currently typing up this entry with it.

Running the latest release of Ubuntu, 6.10 Edgy Eft. Took a little bit to get the wireless functioning properly, but thankfully I remember how to do a lot of stuff. Ran into a little complication part way through, but I think that’s because it’s a 64-Bit machine (my first, by the way), but that was resolved after I changed a few things up and swapped out my usual solution for an alternative. Now, wireless works great, and I’m not hogging Shawn’s ethernet cable (considering his desktop doesn’t have a wireless card ).

Overall, I’m pleased with the purchase. It’s the reason we got under such a financial strain, but everything’s resolved now, and the laptop runs great. Back to the hunt, I say.